Sort of both, yeah. We don't have nearly as many law enforcement agencies as the US, with just municipal, provincial and then the RCMP are federal, so they cover what the FBI, the marshals, the ATF, homeland security, and maybe more, do.
Gotcha. I think the reason the US has so many federal agencies was to prevent the federal government from accumulating too much power in one area or another. Not sure how well that intent has worked out but it is why we have so many agencies.
You do know part of the joke is that Ted is, like most Americans, rather ignorant on the specifics of Canada, relying on what are mostly overblown stereotypes, right?
ReelPoop
Canadian here, i love my crazy neighbour from the South
TyrTheTired
She is absolutely right, but, for fun:
iamthemanwithnoname
Man the Liberian space program is a real overachiever.
ballsoutflyer
There are two types of countries. Those that use ancient forms of measurements and those who made the canadarm
FrankTheCube
Obligatory “NASA used metric to land on the moon” comment.
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
Thats where all the health care money went
MoeMoep
JayDeeDubs
Our cops aren't all called mounties. And we don't say out as "oat," or "aboot" either. It's weirder and more complicated than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Canadian_English
Aforaseem
certainlynotaserialkiller
You better be sorey
CoachMcgurl
Aren't the Mounties the equivalent of the FBI? Or maybe the US Marshals?
JayDeeDubs
Sort of both, yeah. We don't have nearly as many law enforcement agencies as the US, with just municipal, provincial and then the RCMP are federal, so they cover what the FBI, the marshals, the ATF, homeland security, and maybe more, do.
CoachMcgurl
Gotcha. I think the reason the US has so many federal agencies was to prevent the federal government from accumulating too much power in one area or another. Not sure how well that intent has worked out but it is why we have so many agencies.
JoeMalmsteen
You do know part of the joke is that Ted is, like most Americans, rather ignorant on the specifics of Canada, relying on what are mostly overblown stereotypes, right?
jamieb03303
Did someone say Stereotypes?
JoeMalmsteen